Budapest by Night

 
View of Elizabeth (Erzsébet) Bridge from Buda

We climbed up Gellért hill to the Gellért monument as the sun was setting, and boy was that an amazing sight! Not only did we have full view over the Castle District and over the Danube to Pest, but the city lit up like a thousand colorful jewels in the dark night.

View over Budapest and the Castle district on Buda, which we had visited earlier that day.

Gellért Monument was also cool - a statue on the highest hill overlooking the city, it is supposedly "dedicated to the martyred Bishop Gellért, the patron saint of Budapest," and "marks the spot where, according to legend, he was sealed into a barrel and pushed into the Danube" (from TelltheTruthTravel.com). It was a park area - very green & hilly, and we had to climb many levels of stairs to get it to, but it was well worth it!

Here is a picture I got from online, since I did not have the right camera equipment to take pictures of the statue & park itself. I did get many pictures of the lit city below, however! Some of my best EVER.

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